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Marine Le Pen
Europe

What happens to EU's anti-war bloc without Marine Le Pen?

Questions swirl around the timing of her conviction and five-year ban from running for office

European left should stop embarrassing itself over Russia
Europe

European left should stop embarrassing itself over Russia

A French official's bizarre speech itemizing paranoid calamities while lambasting Trump as a 'traitor' is just staving off the inevitable

Emmanuel Macron Annalena Baerbock
Europe

European militarism on steroids is not good, either

Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks

Zelensky, Starmer, Macron
Europe

The flimsy UK, France, Ukraine 'peace plan' discussed Sunday

A Euro force including British troops is the biggest potential dealbreaker as the US would be expected to backstop it

Paris summit ukraine
Europe

Paris Summit was theater, and much ado about nothing

Europeans are arguing for commitments that they cannot keep and Russia is bound to test, but not all agree anyway.

Abdourahmane Tchiani, niger
Africa

Niger's accusation of Western chicanery hits close to home

The latest spat between Niamey's junta leader and Nigeria reflects growing bad blood and the loss of US and French influence in the region.